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In the list of changes between 1.12 and 1.13/1.14 it says:

Development Team wrote: November 18th, 2017, 5:34 pm Wesnoth doesn't allow special characters like ,?;:'" in unit type ids anymore.

Then it happened because of the ID.
I always make ID = file name. My aforementioned "arch-necromancer.cfg" (id=arch-necromancer) was built for 1.12 and did work back then.
Now, while transferring my old scenarios to 1.16, I noticed that that unit simply didn't appear in the game anymore. Not there ...

I'm more susceptible to this, because in a couple of my campaigns you only have a few high-level units and most of the time no way to recruit. No zerg-rushing the enemy, you need to manage your meager resources and try to gain terrain without losses.


Some of the rules of Wesnoth are different ...

Uh, this explains a lot... :doh:
So, a level 0 unit is just as proficient at swordplay as a level 3-4 unique hero? :shock:


Well, normally a level 3 or 4 unit has a greater number of attacks, and does far more damage, than a level 0 unit.

A level 0 Peasant has only 2 attacks, and each attack ...

Thanks, that clears things up. Though I'm still no wiser on why the AI has such a shameless luck (and me such a bad luck). I'm playing on default.


You could try the biased/experimental one - some people like that better.


And what is that "Monte Carlo simulation" thing good for?


I believe ...

I don't have that menu... :)
I guess because I'm still using 1.16 (default with my distro)?


That is 1.16. Here's a better screenshot.

rng.png


"Predictable" could mean less randomness


"Predictable" simply means that if you load from a save file you will get the same random numbers ...

WarDead0 wrote: July 11th, 2026, 8:40 am i'm happy for them to move around within the castle

Maybe you want the zone guardian AI?

After a long hiatus I'm playing some games again (1.16), and somehow the new "combat hit" random generator seems strange to me.


What is the "combat hit" random generator?

The only options I see for the random number generator are "Default RNG", "Predictable RNG", and "Biased RNG (experimental ...

In this example, reason for error is that you register event in name=side 1 turn 1. That does not have unit/second_unit available. From what I understand, practically what you put in advancement is nested event, so you need to delay its evaluation with $|.


According to the documentation you can ...

shevegen wrote: July 9th, 2026, 10:38 am Perhaps a donate button could also be added somewhere

There is a donate button on the home page already - it's the yellow button near the bottom of the page.

shevegen wrote: July 9th, 2026, 10:38 am Anyone has historic pages of wesnoth here, the homepage?

https://web.archive.org/web/20170717202 ... snoth.org/

Is the spellchecker that was once in wmllint totally gone now?

kurt751 wrote: July 8th, 2026, 5:22 pm Thanks! Though it's a little over my pay grade.

Maybe look at Legend of the Invincibles on the add-on server - it's one single add-on but it contains two campaigns. Is that what you want?

Eh, can't do that because the event isn't actually executed, just assigned as part of a variable (so nothing to test, there is a debug message within the event which never displays - because the conditions where the event fires have not yet been reached and I'm only building a new unit with added ...

Some of these unit sprites look a lot like ... slop.

If you're running Wesnoth 1.15, you can manually edit your preferences file and add this line:

font_scale=150

Note that this feature is somewhat buggy.


Preferences.cfg? And where in the file should I put it, or it does not matter?


Recent versions of Wesnoth have an option in the game ...